The Cybernetic Brain

Author: Andrew Pickering
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226667901
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control.
author andrew pickering format hardback language english publication year 23 04 2010 subject mathematics sciences subject 2 science general reference title the cybernetic brain sketches of another future author pickering andrew publisher univ of chicago pr publication date apr 15 2010 pages 526 binding hardcover dimensions 6 25 wx 9 25 hx 1 25 d isbn 0226667898 subject science history description cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control but as andrew
But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present.

The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics' impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and comple

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